Unit 8 Review

Which term best defines the concept that the earth is the center of the universe?

• Heliocentric
• Geocentric
• Eurocentric
• Egotistical

Which term best defines the concept that the sun is the center of the universe?

• heliocentric
• geocentric
• Ethnocentric
• Eurocentric

Marie studied in ..... .

• Medicine

• Science

• English

• Math

Who created the law of motion

• Galileo

• Copernicus

• newton

• Winston

Why did Descartes decide to set aside everything that he had learned and begin again

• He doubted everything he had learned.

• Everything he had learned was wrong

• Science was based on new information only.

• There were no science books.

The scientific method grew out of the belief that the world is best understood through

• imagination.

• direct observation.

• the teachings of Aristotle.

• a geocentric view of the universe.

Scientific discoveries in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries

• confirmed Newton's ideas.

• confirmed Einstein's ideas.

• confirmed Galileo ideas.

• confirmed Aristotle ideas.

What is the most important difference between the Ptolemaic system and the Copernican system

• the position of Jupiter

• the position of the moon

• the position of fixed stars

• he celestial body at the center of the universe

To Voltaire and many other philosophes, the universe was

• Like a clock

• nonexistent

• unworkable

• worked like a flower

According to Rousseau's concept of the social contract

• a government should exact harsh punishment for crime

• the government should not interfere in economic affairs

• a society agrees to be governed by its general will.

• people should be governed by their individual morality.